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To Run Better, Start by Ditching Your Nikes

 


Before the Nikes, before the breathable, antimicrobial running shorts, before the personal fitness coaches, heart rate monitors, wrist-mounted GPS and subscriptions to Runner’s World, you were a runner. And, like all children, you ran barefoot. Now, a small but growing body of research suggests that barefoot is the way adults should run, too. So, many runners have been shucking off the high-tech trainers in favor of naked feet — or minimalist footwear like Nike Free, the Newton All-Weather Trainer and the glove-like Vibram FiveFingers.


Read more: http://globalbestpractice.blogspot.com/2009/07/to-run-better-start-by-ditching-your.html

 

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Tags: Vibram 5 fingers, Nike, Nike Free, Newton All-Weather Trainer, the glove-like Vibram FiveFingers, Global Best Practice, Global IT News, Daniel Lieberman, professor of human evolutionary biology, Harvard University, Nike founder Bill Bowerman, Running Injury Clinic,  University of Calgary’s Faculty of Kinesiology,

 

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